The Hulk Is the Only Avenger Invited to Marvel's Next Thor Movie

Of all of the Marvel superheroes that have been loudly crashing through our movie theaters at least twice a year, Thor and the Hulk are probably the least appreciated. Sure, they're the bruisers of the group, carrying the team and making people laugh with uproarious physical comedy, but they kind of get the short shrift when it comes to their own movies.

The Thor films have, so far, been... perfectly okay films—while Hulk movies are proving really hard to even get made. But maybe the formula for Hulk-Thor success is pairing them up, Odd Couple style, for a road trip through the apocalypse. Marvel insiders have confirmed that Mark Ruffalo's Bruce Banner/Hulk will be joining Chris Hemsworth's Norse god of thunder in the third (and so far, final) Thor movie, 2017's Thor: Ragnarok. According to Devin Faraci of Birth.Movies.Death, Ragnarok was such a bleak script Marvel hired comedy writer/director Taiki Waititi (of What We Do In The Shadows fame) to lighten things up. Which is something the Hulk is bound to help with, hopefully.

Makes you kind of wish for a super-jacked superhero buddy comedy, right? Like, imagine how great it would be to watch Thor and the Hulk costar in Thor: Muscles and Beer.

Which, actually, might explain why it seems the other Avengers are not invited. Who can keep up with those guys? Captain America? He can't ball. Hawkeye can definitely rage, but he's only as useful as his equilibrium. Black Widow could probably drink everyone under the table, but Hulk had to go and make things awkward in the last Avengers movie. And Tony Stark? The hell is wrong with you? That guy has a problem, man.

But Hulk and Thor, that's a dream team. That's like Pain & Gain set in the Marvel Universe. Marvel even has Anthony Mackie, so it kind of works. It's not even hard to imagine the Hulk as a great born-again cokehead.